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Early Israelites : two peoples, one history : rediscovery of the origins of ancient Israel / Igor P. Lipovsky.
Library at the Katz Center - Stacks DS121 .L56 2019
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lipovsky, Igor P., 1950- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bible. Exodus.
- Bible. Genesis.
- Bible. Old Testament.
- Jews--History--To 953 B.C.
- Jews.
- History.
- Bible. Old Testament--History of Biblical events.
- Bible.
- Jews--Origin.
- Canaanites--History.
- Canaanites.
- Bible. Genesis--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bible. Exodus--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History of Biblical events.
- Palestine--History--To 70 A.D.
- Palestine.
- Middle East--Palestine.
- Genre:
- History.
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 269 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- Second revised edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. ; American Academy Press, [2019]
- Summary:
- "What does the Bible hide and to what extent can we trust the Holy Scriptures? The 'archaeology' of biblical texts yielded many interesting and surprising discoveries. As it turned out, the Israelites (Northern Hebrew tribes) and Judahites (Southerners) had completely different ancestors, who arrived in Canaan and then left the Nile Delta at different times. The Northerners and the Southerners made their Exodus from Egypt at different centuries as well, and conquered their places in Canaan independently. So what -- or who -- is responsible for the contradictions between facts mentioned in the Old Testament and archaeological findings of the last decades? The authors of the Bible merged the family trees and narratives of both peoples to create a common geneaology and history. But where the archaeologists look for the history of Early Israel, are in fact the hidden and different pasts of two West Semitic peoples." -- Page 4 of printed paper wrapper.
- Contents:
- The beginning of Jewish history
- The southerners and the northerners
- In the Egypt of the Hyksos
- The 'House of Joseph' in Canaan, 15th-13th centuries B.C.E.
- The second exodus of the western Semites from Egypt
- On the path to the old homeland
- The peoples of pre-Israelite Canaan
- The re-conquest of Canaan
- In the days when there was no king in Israel.
- Notes:
- Originally published in 2012.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-260) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780578536309
- 0578536307
- OCLC:
- 1126571004
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